On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Python uses its own C code for this.
The important point here is that they use the strtol/strtod interface,
however it's implemented. atoi and atof lack the end pointer argument
that enables raising a ValueError for an incomplete conversion. For
example, strtol("123e9", &end, 10) will merrily return 123, but with
*end == 'e'. I think it's good that Python raises a ValueError in this
case.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
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